Silicon Power Architect, Reality Labs

Job Title

Silicon Power Architect, Reality Labs

Role Summary

Lead power architecture and modeling for custom silicon used in Reality Labs AI-enabled wearable devices. Work with system, SoC, PMIC, and IP teams to define power states, estimate use-case power, and optimize implementations to meet strict power budgets for consumer wearables.

Experience Level

Senior level. Minimum 6+ years of experience with production silicon and at least one shipped product.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include leading power modeling and architecture across the silicon and system stack.

• Model and own use-case power for custom silicon in collaboration with systems teams.
• Define and influence SoC power requirements: power states, high-level power tree, and power sequencing.
• Work with SoC architects to optimize image compute, CPU/GPU, and other workloads for AR/VR use cases.
• Collaborate with PMIC and systems teams on SOC-level power requirements and integration.
• Optimize power-architecture implementations to meet target use-case power goals.
• Develop methodologies, prototype concepts, and guide transitions into high-volume consumer products.
• Model data flows, evaluate trade-offs between general-purpose and custom compute, and perform cost/benefit analyses.
• Perform post-silicon model-to-hardware correlation and debug cross-disciplinary system issues.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience.

• 6+ years working with production silicon and at least one shipped product.
• Experience partitioning solutions across hardware/software and multi-disciplinary system boundaries.
• Experience with technology node scaling and projections.
• Experience producing custom IP block power estimates and low-power design principles across RTL, design, and system levels.
• Ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs of performance, power, and area.
• Proven use of scientific methods to debug, diagnose, and resolve cross-disciplinary system issues.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with top-down, high-level modeling to hardware power estimation and virtual prototyping tools (for example, Synopsys Platform Architect).
• Experience using AI agents to manage power tools and extract results.
• Programming experience in C, C++, or Python.
• Experience leading or collaborating effectively in multidisciplinary teams and solving ambiguous problems in fast-changing consumer electronics environments.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience is required. Master's degree (MSEE) or PhD is listed as preferred.

About the Company

Company: Meta Platforms

Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, United States

American technology company that develops social networking products (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) and invests in virtual/augmented reality hardware and software through Reality Labs, focusing on connectivity, advertising, and immersive computing experiences.